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I do Help >> Index, and Audacity says "You don't appear to have Audacity help files on your machine. etc." So I download them, and put them in the Audacity folder. It still says "You don't appear to have Audacity help files on your machine. etc."

So, where do I put them to get the menu option to work?

-mu

ps. I have searched all over for this, even ran filemon on my desktop, even searched for the audacity source page with this text in it, but still no clue as to the correct location of the files. Shouldn't this be easy?

Oh wait, this German page...

http://www.audacity-forum.de/thread/2526

Tells all. Basically, I have to move the individual help files into my USER FOLDER (WHAT?!?!? That's not user data! It does not belong in there!) inside "Application DataAudacityHelp" and then rename the index.html to index.htm, NOW it works. Wtf!

Is this some kind of joke?

-mu

ps. and for the ultimate piss-take, it opens, not my system browser, but Internet Explorer. *grrr*.

For those still searching, in Windows Vista, the files need to be unzipped into
Users<username>AppDataRoamingAudacityHelp
The help index, once renamed to index.htm, will then open in Audacity's own browser (v1.3.5), but the re-naming will break internal links back to the main page. Instead, create a copy of index.html and re-name that.